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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Missing Handgun - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 22:26:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 22:26:01 1983
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tekcad!franka    Sep 21 08:59:00 1983

	Yes, yes. The bad old state of NY deprives you of a handgun. The one
thing you don't seem to realize is that it also deprived your attacker of a
handgun. If you had both had guns, YOU might have been the one to end up with
a bullet in YOUR head (or are you that good at quick-drawing?). I don't think
that your attacker not having a gun inconvienienced you that much. I think that
you could find other ways of defending yourself against a tire iron than using
a gun (knives thrown at a distance work real good (of course you have to prac-
tise)). Don't tell me that the laws depriving you of a gun hurt you. That law
may have saved your life. Laws don't hurt people - people hurt people.
						Frank Adrian
						(tektronix!tekcad!franka)